We build bridges between builders, researchers & funders transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods.
Transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods.
March 15th-16th 2025
AI, Open Web & Digital Infrastructures as Commons
As AI transforms industries and societies at an unprecedented pace, how can we ensure its development upholds openness, transparency, and public good?
We will examine the intersection of AI and the open web, addressing governance, alignment, privacy, ethics, and sustainable funding models. Through actionable insights and cross-disciplinary collaboration, we’ll explore how to fund and steward the open web’s foundational tools, ensuring they remain accessible, equitable, and resilient in an AI-driven world.
Our partner brand's flagship conference
Earth Commons Conference: Zurich 2025
Reimagining Finance, Philanthropy, and Technology for the Stewardship of Our Commons
Switzerland’s history of decentralization and reputation as a global innovation hub, with its regulatory foresight and embrace of “sandbox” innovation, make it the perfect setting to explore the intersection of finance, philanthropy, and technology.
November 6th - 7th, 2024
Funding the Commons & Earth Commons: Bangkok Design Jam
DistrictX, Bangkok, Thailand
Collaborate with technical builders, designers, academics, creatives, and subject matter experts across science, law, policy, and industry to co-create solutions to vital challenges impacting public goods and earth's commons.
November 8th-9th, 2024
Funding the Commons x Earth Commons Conference @ Bangkok
Join us for the 11th Funding the Commons conference. We’ll explore public goods funding, digital innovation, and, for the second time this year, partner with Earth Commons to spotlight environmental stewardship, regenerative agriculture, biodiversity, and decentralized science.
22nd floor Rise/SeaX Ventures, Gaysorn Tower
Achievements
Growing the Network = More Commons Funded
13 Succesful Conferences
9 Countries
3 Continents
Appearances in other conferences
25 Projects Impacted
# of projects in hackathons
# of projects presented
# of residencies
650M+ Connections
50+ Speakers
1000 + Attendees
5000 + Online Community Members
25 Projects Impacted
# of projects in hackathons
# of projects presented
# of residencies
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Conferences
Live events featuring high-potential projects, speakers, funders & workshop opportunities
Impact
Growing the Network = Funding More Commons
2000+ Total Attendees
1485 total attendees
400 total speakers
115 sponsors
Over 200 Projects Impacted
116 projects in hackathons
180 projects presented
over 5,000 community members
10 Successful Conferences
9 countries
3 continents
5 pop-ups in other conferences
Builder Residencies
Are you a builder or researcher working on public goods?
Explore this unique collective experience to propel your project forward. Our next residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand includes:
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1-month co-living experience
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collaborative community workshops
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mentorship & peer-support
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connection & continuous education
Hackathons
To fuel innovation!
Organized to produce new public goods funding infrastructure for web3, and integrate existing public goods funding infrastructure.
Sponsor challenges, prizes, and mentorship to directly engage with hackathon participants
Collective expertise of partner organizations will be leveraged to support projects.
Existing public goods funding infrastructure will be leveraged to fund and incubate winning hackathon participants.
Community Love
Constantina Bakolitsa
Researcher @ Berkeley
Enabling communication and the growth of relationships (work and otherwise) between attendees from such vastly different realms of life is, I believe, critical for creating a new transformative Culture of the Commons.
Carl Cervone
Speaker
Congrats to Funding the Commons! The combo of big ideas - builder energy is exceptional.
Al Smith
Speaker
Funding the Commons events have been excellent ways for the Tor Project to meet people who are not part of our 'traditional ecosystem' but have clear values alignment and are working towards similar things. Some strong relationships have been forged because of these events. Thanks for doing what you do!
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Earth Commons
Check out our sister conference focused on the transformation of funding and governance of nature’s commons
Earth Commons was originally incubated as Sustainable Blockchain Summit from within the Filecoin Green Team at Protocol Labs as a conference series sitting at the nexus of Web3 and Climate.
Today, the Funding the Commons Team has inherited the conference series. We are building out an ecosystem focused on underscoring the systemic, interdependent changes necessary for progress in governing planetary commons, such as forests, fisheries, oceans, biodiversity, freshwater reservoirs, and other ecosystem services, by uniting the forces of Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy, and industry.
Building a Better Tomorrow
We accelerate the development and implementation of blockchain-based infrastructure for public goods funding. By nurturing a diverse ecosystem across Web2, Web3, academia, public sector institutions, philanthropy and industry, we aim to cultivate the interdependent systemic changes necessary for better management of public goods.
We envision a world where human coordination at scale inherently prioritizes commons, with the brightest global talent focused on public good innovation, backed by robust impact evaluation systems, and sustained by continuous capital flows.